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How to find and fix broken links in WordPress
Find broken internal, external and image links across a WordPress site, triage them without false alarms, fix them safely in the block editor, and stop new ones appearing.
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Dragon Broken Links
Broken link checker that runs on your own server: find and fix dead internal, external and image links. No cloud, no credits, no monthly limits.
Features
What Dragon Broken Links does
Find and fix broken internal, external and image links from your own server — no cloud, no credits, no metering.
Checks everything
links, images, embeds and media in every published post, page, WooCommerce product and custom post type, with no link limit.
Two engines, done right
internal links are resolved against your database (fast, always accurate, no self-requests); external links are fetched politely, one request per unique URL no matter how many posts use it.
No false alarms
a link is only marked *broken* after a hard failure (404/410, DNS or connection failure) is confirmed across repeated checks. Ambiguous responses (bot-blocking 403s, rate limits, timeouts) are shown as *needs review*, never as broken.
Fix in place
edit a link's URL or remove the link entirely, directly from the report. Fully block-editor aware, so it never corrupts your content.
Dismiss & re-check
ignore links you do not care about, or re-check a single link on demand.
Scan now
run a full scan from the dashboard with live progress, plus a background re-check that works through every link daily, weekly or monthly.
WP-CLI
`wp dragon-broken-links scan`, `list` and `recheck` for large or headless sites.
Secure by design
external checks refuse to reach private or internal network addresses.
Guides
Put Dragon Broken Links to work
Step-by-step guides from the team that builds it. All guides
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Broken Link Checker alternatives for WordPress, and what to look for in one
Why people leave the cloud-based Broken Link Checker, what actually matters in a link checker (local engine, no credits, no false positives, safe fixing), and where Dragon Broken Links fits.
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Monitoring a portfolio of client sites for broken links: re-scans, email alerts and bulk fixes
How an agency keeps dozens of sites free of dead links without opening each one: a scheduled full re-scan, one email when links newly break, bulk domain fixes and a CSV for the client report.
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Requirements
- · WordPress 6.2 or newer
- · PHP 8.0 or newer
- · WordPress 6.2+ · PHP 8.0+
Changelog
v1.2.0
Adds email alerts, a weekly full re-scan, optional custom field and comment scanning, domain find-and-replace, bulk dismiss and CSV export. • Email alerts: tick Email alerts under Settings to get one email listing the links that have newly become broken when a scan finishes. It goes to the site admin email or to the addresses you enter. Links already broken are not sent again, and nothing is sent when nothing new broke. Alerts are off until you switch them on. • Scheduled full re-scan: every post is read again in the background, weekly by default (daily or off under Settings), so links that reached a post without it being saved, such as imports or custom fields, are found.